March 9 2015
Chapter 28: Daring Doofus' last stunt
It was like the world had started going on slow-motion.
Kit was falling towards the flaming hoops.
Baloo turned the Sea Duck into a dive.
Doofus looked down from his plane.
The audience gasped.
And I held on to my seat like my life depended on it.
My eyes followed Kit as he fell closer to the flaming hoops. He opened his airfoil, but it didn't seem to be enough to save him from a burning death.
"Open the hatch and release the cord!".
I did as told and just in time. We swooped below Kit and the boy managed to grab a hold of the cord. Baloo turned the plane around pulling him away from the flames. Daring Doofus didn't look too pleased as he shook his fist at us.
"You know, I think Dan wants us to be part of the show" I grinned. Baloo nodded. We turned again, this time to chase Doofus' plane.
"Don't worry, Dan" Baloo smirked "-it's all part of the show!"
Using the right propeller Baloo ground half of the white plane, sending it and Doofus crashing down. The door behind us opened and Kit stepped in.
"Oh Baloo. Oh Lis" he said wiping away few tears. I didn't say anything, just jumped off my seat and hugged the boy. He hugged me back and I could hear him making a small sniffing sound.
"It's okay, kiddo, it's okay."
"Hey, you two are missin' the best part of the show"
Daring Doofus had parachuted out off his wreck of a plane, but unlike Kit he wasn't able to miss the flames completely. The parachute had caught fire and the idiot had tried to blow it out. Instead of diminishing the burning area had spread till there was nothing left but the strings connecting to Dan's back. Fortunately for him, he wasn't that far from the ground and there was someone there to catch him. Unfortunately that someone was the police from earlier. The daredevil tried to make the run for it, but Baloo wasn't going to let him off the hook that easily. Swooping down we chased Doofus back to the officer. He fell down right on the officer's feet.
Kit had taken off his stunt outfit, revealing his old shirt under it and threw the outfit out of the window right in Doofus' face.
"He's looking at you, ace!" the boy yelled.
Looking down at Dan I showed him a certain rude hand gesture. Although I'm not sure if the said gesture was used in this world I'm pretty sure he understood the meaning of it. He shot one last angry glare at me one more time before he disappeared from our view as we turned around to leave. The guy wouldn't be bothering us again for sure.
Kit turned on the navigator seat and looked at me.
"I- I'm sorry I left. You were right all along..."
"It doesn't matter anymore" I ruffled his hair. "You're back and that's the important thing. Although you seem to be missing something." I reached out and took the blue cap off one of the racks on the wall where Baloo had put it after the boy had left. "There" I placed it on Kit's head "now you're perfect".
He smiled before turning to talk to Baloo.
"I'm sorry papa bear. If you'll have me back-"
"Pilot to passenger" Baloo cut him off. He was once again having trouble with the map. "Ya wouldn't know where I could find me a good navigator, would ya?"
Kit took the map off Baloo's face and looked at it. I passed him the compass and after only few seconds the boy said "Navigator to pilot: Cape Suzette, straight ahead."
"Pilot to navigator: Welcome home, partner"
The two bears smiled at each other. I smiled too, happy this episode was finally over...
...
Our trip back to Higher for Hire took longer than the trip to New Fedora. The reason was simple; we stopped at Louie's on the way back. Neither Baloo or me had visited the place after Kit had left so we had to not just celebrate Kit's return but also catch up with the lost time. By the time we finally got back the morning sun had already started to rise at the horizon.
"Miz Cunningham isn't going to like this"
"Pish-posh Kit. I think she'll forgive us this one time. Now that you're back we can get back to work again, so she shouldn't have anything to complain about."
"Did ya drink too many milkshakes, Lis? Sound like your brain's a bit frozen."
"Maybe" I held my head. We all laughed and headed in the office, and from there, our rooms.
But as it turned out I had been right after all. After arriving to work, Becky was so glad to have the team back together that she let us sleep most of the day. The female bear also apologized for doubting me earlier. In the afternoon we delivered few easy cargo shipments, catching up a little with the work. We read from the newspaper that Daring Doofus would be sent to a prison for several years, so that was one thing less to worry about. Things seemed to be going smoothly again.
But little did I know that in only few days this world would throw another curve ball at me...
Author's note
Welp, it seems I have failed again at delivering chapters within a month from the last one, busy in real life and all that you know.
From now on there won't be long chapters because A) They take longer to write and B) it's easier to write in shorter amounts.
So sorry and thank you for those still reading this.
Reviews are welcomed.
